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9991··on Hired by Google as L4 but rejected by top colleges
It's a faux pas to say how racist American institutions are. Please don't bring it up again.
9991··on Hired by Google as L4 but rejected by top colleges
No, but it is 10 times harder. A black woman with Zhong's resume would have gotten in everywhere, and you know it.

Anyways, it's not me that's saying it: https://studentsforfairadmissions.org/

They recently won a court case you may have heard of: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Students_for_Fair_Admissions_v...

But that decision is too late for this guy.

9991··on Google User Data Is Police's Top Shortcut for Solving Crimes
By whom?
9991··on Google User Data Is Police's Top Shortcut for Solving Crimes
How do you know all search engines aren’t compromised?

(OK, reasonable chance Yandex isn’t compromised by your government, but the others?)

9991··on ChessMonitor – Analytics for Lichess and Chess.com
Feature suggestion: I've been looking for a long time for something that will look through my games and tell me if I've ever made a bad move twice from an identical position.
9991··on Microsoft has not stopped forcing Edge on Windows 11 users
Yea, there are distros with ads and tracking, and that's a stain on them, and on the people who willingly put up with it. Debian and Pop!_OS are great, btw.
9991··on Are cooking videos making us better cooks?
If one reads my comment carefully, they will notice I did not comment on whether robomartin read any future Hacker News article. I will not comment on whether you read my comment.
9991··on Are cooking videos making us better cooks?
> Didn't read the article.

From the Hacker News Guidelines:

> Please don't comment on whether someone read an article.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Next time you don't read an article, please keep it to yourself.

9991··on UPI Payments: 10B transactions a month done, next stop 100B
Why should I subsidize parents who choose to raise kids in carcinogenic cities?
9991··on FBI, partners dismantle Qakbot infrastructure
The U.S. hasn't declared war since WWII, so it looks like the entirety of the U.S. military is in violation of this. It's looking more and more like what actually gets prosecuted is a political decision.
9991··on Tesla owners say they've been trapped inside their EVs after they lost power
Sounds like a bad design?
9991··on Timo Noko – The Professional Hobo (2016)
Living off of investments means you’re less tied to geographies. And frugal means you choose among the cheaper locales.
9991··on Timo Noko – The Professional Hobo (2016)
What does a millionaire look like?
9991··on Successful room temperature ambient-pressure magnetic levitation of LK-99
Magnetic fields can move the probes.
9991··on For the love of god, stop microwaving plastic
My doctor recommended it. The packaging on my infant formula recommended it. The US FDA recommends it.

https://www.fda.gov/food/foodborne-pathogens/cronobacter-sak...

But you do you.

9991··on For the love of god, stop microwaving plastic
Sterilize was the wrong word, but a that high of a temperature will kill the germs that most commonly infect the infant human gut. You may have heard about cronobacter contamination being an issue a while back. If 80C doesn’t kill everything, but those germs pass through harmlessly, then it’s not a problem.

If that doesn’t make sense to you as a microbiologist, you should let the US FDA know.

https://www.fda.gov/food/foodborne-pathogens/cronobacter-sak...

9991··on For the love of god, stop microwaving plastic
The powder is not sterile. The advice I got was to mix it with 80C water to sterilize it and wait for it to cool.
9991··on How fast should you accelerate your kid in math?
If our mathematicians are 10% better, we’re not going to have train drivers at all.
9991··on Superconductor news: What’s claimed, and how strong the evidence seems to be
Right
9991··on Show HN: I spent 2 years building a personal finance simulator
LOL, people serious about financial independence aren't paying $100+/yr for a model they can run in a spreadsheet.
9991··on All foster kids in California can now attend any state college for free
You get more of what you incentivize.
9991··on Kangaroo tendons could rebuild human knees better, stronger
We're just going to work our way down the food chain.
9991··on S.F. says incidents by Cruise, Waymo driverless taxis are ‘skyrocketing.’
How far gone are you to think that kidnapping and robbery aren't violent acts that justify violent responses? If you try to detain me illegally (also known as false imprisonment) you're just asking for a face full of lead. But 'Murder' is unlawful killing. This would be self-defense.
9991··on Japanese steakhouse in Florida closes after customers test positive for meth
Because it's labelled as salt?
9991··on Threads profile can only be deleted by deleting Instagram account, Meta says
Not your server, not your account.
9991··on Dutch rules will soon prevent schoolchildren from having a phone in classroom
yt-dlp will give it to you.
9991··on SFO United staff accused of stealing marijuana from checked bags
Around the same. Don't forget where you're posting.

I didn't say it was a certainty, just a good bet. Besides working as baggage handlers, engaging extraordinarily risky behavior and then directly taking actions that led to being caught does not speak well to their decision-making capabilities.

9991··on SFO United staff accused of stealing marijuana from checked bags
They're working as baggage handlers, so that's a safe bet.
9991··on Update from Lemmy after the Reddit blackout
OK, I briefly looked at posts on Lemmy.ml. I saw nothing about China or communism. But so what if it is there? Other people posting on a particular instance doesn't reflect at all on the Lemmy code or project. Is it so hard to link to something specific and offensive the authors themselves wrote or did?
9991··on Update from Lemmy after the Reddit blackout
Your comment would be better if you could link to a source or proof. And more specifics, what exactly did they do?

BUT!

Even stipulating everything you said is true does not mean we shouldn’t support Lemmy. Open source code can live or die on its own merits. To punish them in one area because of political views in another is another toxic manifestation of cancel culture.

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